Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 668 - 29 Senior Brother Chu, I Made It 【Seeking Monthly Pass!】_1

Chapter 668: Chapter 29 Senior Brother Chu, I Made It 【Seeking Monthly Pass!】_1

The continuous crackling of the flames persisted, with half of the forest turned into black wreckage. Corpses lay everywhere on the ground, with only a few figures moving around in between, searching for any remaining enemies.

The young man who had previously spoken confidently to the imperial court’s army was now squatting on a hillside, his eyes hollow.

His long hair was in disarray, his complexion sallow, and he looked skinny and haggard. Despite having gone through a bloody battle, he was not injured, and his body was covered in the blood of others. The intense fierceness he had displayed earlier was now nowhere to be seen. Only confusion remained in his eyes.

"Big Brother Jiangtong." A childlike voice suddenly called out from behind.

The young man turned around and saw a skinny little girl with a packet of dry food in her hand.

"Yaoyao?" The young man immediately regained his focus, his eyes sparkling with life once again before he turned back and said, "What’s up?"

"We found quite a lot of food, and Mom asked me to bring some to you first." The little girl named Yaoyao handed over the food.

"I’m not hungry, Yaoyao, you eat." The young man gently patted the little girl’s head.

"Mom said you haven’t eaten anything for several days and had just fought a battle. You can’t be hungry." Yaoyao insisted.

"Hehe." The young man laughed. "That’s because my cultivation is higher, and my demon blood is the purest. I can survive for a long time even just on spiritual energy. But you guys can’t. We should let you eat first if we have food. Go back quickly, it might still be dangerous here."

After shooing the little girl down the hillside, the young man turned around again.

Now, there was a figure in a black robe standing in front of him, completely shrouded, revealing no features at all.

"Li Jiantong?" the black-robed figure asked.

"It’s me." The young man frowned. "Seems like we have a new contact. Why does every one of them appear and disappear like ghosts?"

"Providing support to you is not as simple as you think. If we are not discreet, the Regent Residence would have already captured us." The black-robed figure said, tossing over a jade slip.

Li Jiantong caught it with a flick of his hand.

"Inside is the location where you need to go next, and the supplies that will last until you get there." The black-robed figure continued, "Once you leave Mang Mountain, there will be people to guide you. Remember to manage your people well and not make any mistakes. If there is any hint of a leak, no one can save you."

"It’s just food again..." Li Jiantong said, "You let us fight the imperial court, I need weapons, magic artifacts, steeds. We, the Mang Mountain people, fear nothing, but if we had everything we needed, fewer of my brothers would die."

"Those things can be traced back to their origins, you will have to rely on yourselves to loot them." The black-robed figure said, "You have to understand that in the present Yu Dynasty, food is the most precious thing."

"Of course I know." Li Jiantong gave a self-mocking smile.

"Also..." the black-robed figure said, "Most importantly, if there are people who transform into demons, do not show mercy, execute them immediately. The demonic clan in the Southern Region is becoming increasingly ferocious, if this continues, they will likely come after you. You are already the great enemy of the Imperial Court, if you are associated with the demonic clan, all Nine Heavens and Ten Lands will come after you..."

"Heh." Li Jiantong’s smile widened, but his eyes flashed with a hint of savagery.

The reason the Mang Mountain people had been discriminated against for generations was because of the demon blood in their bodies. In the eyes of many, anyone with a touch of demon blood was considered no different from the demonic clan.

Those who carried demon blood in their bodies excelled in cultivation and were exceptionally gifted. However, they also carried the risk of reverting back to a demon at any time. In particular, those with higher talents, which indicated a purer demon bloodline, posed a greater threat once they reverted.

The influence of demon blood could also lead to violent, indifferent, and difficult behaviors, exacerbating the conflict.

For thousands of years, the Mang Mountain people could not fully integrate into the Southern Region, which is why there were so many Mang Mountain bandits.

Under such sharp conflicts, the imperial court could only further tighten control, prohibiting the Mang Mountain people from practicing cultivation to prevent causing major disasters that could not be managed; forbidding intermarriage between the Mang Mountain people and others to prevent the spread of demon blood...

The Mang Mountain people knew very well that the people outside were waiting for them to self-destruct.

They could survive before, as long as they had food to eat, nobody would think of rebelling.

About thirty years ago, someone began to secretly provide the Mang Mountain people with cultivation techniques and resources, allowing those with outstanding talents to practice in secret. Although this was strictly forbidden by the imperial court and various cultivator sects, because it was small in scale, and those Mang Mountain people with cultivation did not go out to cause trouble, it was never discovered.

Until a few years ago, when disasters occurred frequently in the Nine States causing widespread famine, the living conditions in Mang Mountain worsened, and the Mang Mountain people could no longer survive.

That led to previous occurrences of repeated looting, and today’s outright rebellion against the officials.

Behind all this was another force that had reached out to Li Jiantong, the leader of the Mang Mountain people, for help beforehand.

The requirement of this force was to immediately execute anyone who turned into a demon without mercy.

The continuous fighting was already a huge factor in escalating the probability of the Mang Mountain disciples reverting to their demonic lineage. Now, every single one of them was risking their lives in bloody combat. If a desperate person was ultimately killed by his own fellow disciples, it would be an exceedingly cruel fate.

The people behind Li Jiantong were still demanding him to do so. Their goal was apparently to force him to sever ties with the Demonic Clan.

What they didn’t know was that the Demonic Clan had already found Li Jiantong.

Just a moment ago.

After the black-robed man had left, Li Jiantong had squatted down again, staring blankly at the scorched battlefield strewn with dead bodies in front of him. Some people were so hungry that they wanted to cut meat from the corpses to eat, but they were stopped by a group of others. They weren’t stopping them because of any taboos, but simply because several Mang Mountain disciples had tried it before and found that once they consumed human flesh, their chances of turning into demons would greatly increase. Once they turned, there would be no way back.

Li Jiantong clenched his teeth, and his gaze gradually hardened.

Before the Mang Mountain disciples left the mountain, everyone detested and loathed them. After they came down from the mountain, however, everyone wanted to use them as weapons.

Humans don’t see us as humans, and demons don’t see us as demons.

Then we should let everyone in the world know...

When the Mang Mountain disciples are full they are humans, but when they are hungry they are demons!

...

"This meat of the snow frog is absolutely exquisite!"

Attendant B raised his thumb, introducing to everyone the top quality ingredients at Red Moon Square.

Although he is now one of the renowned Four Tyrants of Shu Mountain and an acclaimed restaurant tycoon with Immortal Cultivation World outlets under his command, as well as the dream lover of many girls, and is known as the Mountain Tiger, his real name is Meng Shouyang.

However, his original intention has never changed. Whenever there’s new food, he would be the first to taste it, and there’s no one more familiar with the ingredients in Red Moon Square than he is.

Today’s reunion of Silver Sword Peak’s kith and kin was to celebrate Chu Liang’s return. All the ingredients were personally selected by Attendant B from Red Moon Square, they were absolutely top-notch.

"All this meat comes from the Red-tailed Cow, which is vastly different from regular beef..."

"These are fresh, from the Western Regions; a demon beast that looks like a plant but has blood veins. The locals call it the Man-eating Demon Flower. It was an absolute innovation, I thought, if this beast could eat humans, could humans eat it? So I tried it, and found that its taste is truly good."

"..."

As he was introducing and serving the dishes one after another, Shang Ziliang suddenly sighed, "In recent years, many places in the Four Seas and Nine Continents are facing famine. The fact that we can indulge in such a feast here is truly a blessing."

"Famine?" Chu Liang asked, raising his eyes, "Isn’t Yao Dengxian taking care of it? Would it still affect the harvest?"

"Well..." When it comes to this, Lin Bei also sighed. "It’s not that simple. Siyun Avenue can alter weathers, such as droughts and floods. But unexpected earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, landslides, gales, snowstorms, locust plagues... these calamities come one after the other. It’s not effective to simply alter the weather."

"Why is that?" Chu Liang frowned. "After the Golden Dragon left, the Yu Dynasty has not found a new Luck Beast?"

"This has already become an issue beyond the capacity of a Luck Beast..." Shang Ziliang explained. "At first, the auspicious divine beasts of the Four Seas did appear in Nine States successively, presumably to take control of the Suppression of Luck. But not much later, the luck of the Yu Dynasty started to drastically leak... This is unofficial news, I cannot guarantee its credibility. But it seems that the national luck of the Yu Dynasty suddenly started to decline rapidly. Those divine beasts who initially came to vie for Suppression of Luck all left one after another."

The decline of national luck implies chaotic times ahead; Chu Liang couldn’t help worrying either, as this was certainly not a good sign.

"Once the world is in chaos, peculiar cases and evil spirits spring up." Lin Bei continued. "In recent years, the number of tasks at the Sword Exchange Pavilion has noticeably surged. Our Eldest Senior Brother often has to deal with them, so he is rarely seen on Shu Mountain these days."

The Eldest Senior Brother he was talking about was of course Xu Ziyang. Chu Liang hadn’t seen Senior Brother Xu during these two days after his return.

"Actually, Red Cotton Peak’s rise owes in part to the winding chaotic course of events..." Chu Yi at the side added. "Because the world is thrown into disorder, cultivators are also beginning to worry about their own safety, thus our home delivery services are more favored than those of Taotie City. Without this, it would not have been possible for us to establish our advantage so soon."

Even if he said that, there was no way Chu Liang could smile at such news.

Cultivators dwell above it all, so if even they are beginning to worry about their safety, how challenging must the common folk’s lives be?

After some thought, he added, "Then should we hold some disaster relief activities? We’ve earned quite a bit over the years from Red Cotton Peak, we should be able to contribute a little, right?"

Chu Yi replied, "Actually, the funds have always been tight because we’ve been struggling with Taotie City and Immortal District both openly and covertly. But if we pause the expansion and only maintain our current shares, we should be able to save up some money."

"I heard that Yunque Temple would be hosting a banquet in a few days..." Lin Bei was about to say something.

"Senior Brother Chu!" Wen Yulong suddenly burst in, he didn’t even glance at the food on the table, exclaiming excitedly, "I’ve succeeded!"